Table 2: PovertyRates for Children, in Canada, Ontario & Waterloo Region, 1996 ... 5 About 1.5 million Canadianchildren live in poverty, and the number of poor children ... to eliminate poverty by the year 2000. One in five Canadianchildren (19.8%) was poor in 1997. In fact, Canada’schildren are more likely to live in poverty than Canadians